string as array in python

I am new learner in python.I need to make the following string as array.

['Soyuz_TMA-16', '2009-09-30']
['Soyuz_TMA-17', '2009-12-20']
['Soyuz_TMA-01M', '2010-10-07']
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so that I can search in a text file for the string eg.['Soyuz_TMA-16', 2009-09-30'].If match together in some line eg:

    abcd 30th september 2009 skakk gkdka kkhhf Soyuz TMA 16.
    gfigka Soyuz TMA 16 hfkhf hghhg fghh 30th september 2009.

then it should return the whole line with marking the matches string.

Hopefully get a solution here.Thanks!

Parse the list of missions and dates into a dict missions, whose keys are the string value of dates: '2009-12-20'. Then, you can lookup the dict ('if date in missions: ...'). You'll also need to be able to parse the text-form of dates (using regex) into '2009-12-20' form, I wrote a function 'dtuple_to_date()'. (You could use a set rather than a dict, same idea. Looking up mapping types like dicts or sets is constant time i.e. O(1), rather than O(N) for a list of N elements.)

This code works:

import re

missions = """['Soyuz_TMA-16', '2009-09-30']
    ['Soyuz_TMA-17', '2009-12-20']
    ['Soyuz_TMA-01M', '2010-10-07']""".translate(None,',[]\'\"').split('\n')
missions = [t.split() for t in missions]

missions = dict((d,m) for m,d in missions)


input = """abcd 30th september 2009 skakk gkdka kkhhf Soyuz TMA 16.
gfigka Soyuz TMA 16 hfkhf hghhg fghh 30th september 2009.""".split('\n')


find_dates = re.compile(r'(\d+)\S*\s+(\S+)\s+(2008|2009|2010|2011)')

def dtuple_to_date(d,mth,y):
   """convert ('30','september','2009') to '2009-09-30"""
   m = {'january':1,'february':2,'march':3,'april':4,'may':5,'june':6,
        'july':7,'august':8,'september':9,'october':10,'november':11,
        'december':12}[mth.lower()]
   return "%s-%02d-%s" % (y,m,d)


for idx,line in enumerate(input):
    for (day,mth,yr) in find_dates.findall(line):
        date = dtuple_to_date(day,mth,yr)
        #print 'Looking up', date
        if date in missions:
            print 'Line %d: reference to mission %s on date %s' \
                % (idx, missions[date], date)